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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore learn in school about the discovery of America?

2. What is the name of Dwayne's dog?

3. What is Dwayne's medical condition mentioned in Chapter 1?

4. What is Kilgore asked to be in the letter he receives?

5. How does Kilgore make his living?

Short Essay Questions

1. in Chapter 12, what does the driver recognize as a difference between himself and Kilgore?

2. In Chapter 10, why does Kilgore have to sit on the floor of the truck he rides in?

3. What is the difference between Dwayne's personal life and business life?

4. How is the Preface in Breakfast of Champions presented in terms of genre?

5. How are the relationships between the pets and Kilgore and Dwayne different?

6. Why is Harry LeSabre upset by Dwayne's comment about his outfit looking like that of a mortician?

7. What does the message written on the bathroom wall in the pornography theater say and what is Kilgore's response to it?

8. Who asks Kilgore to be a keynote speaker and why?

9. What does Kilgore think about mirrors? What does he think they are?

10. What are the events given in the quick presentation of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Kilgore's comment at the police station being picked up by a newspaper and, thus, causing widespread panic among New Yorkers? What are the circumstances surrounding Kilgore's being at the police station and what are circumstances following afterward, which Kilgore is never even made aware of? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

After Dwayne's fateful reading of Kilgore's Now It Can Be Told, he accosts numerous people in a violent rampage. Relate what is known about the plot of Kilgore's novel and how it affects Dwayne who is in a critical mental state. Assess the plot of Kilgore's novel and how Dwayne interprets it in order to explain why Dwayne embarks on his rampage after reading it.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 22, The Narrator decides to speed up the pace of the narrative. What does he do in order to accomplish this? Does it in any way contradict his previous claim of all characters and details being of equal importance? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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